The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk.

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

A good artist makes imaginations real!

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

I am proud to be a Southerner.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.